From: "bcparanj@..." <bcparanj@...>
Date: 2007-05-30T07:50:21+09:00
Subject: Regexp to extract number with  hyphen

I have a text with "foo 01-02" in a string. I want to extract foo
01-02 using regexp. reg = /foo (\d+)/ only extracts foo with numbers
when there is no hyphen.

reg = /foo (\d{1,})|(\-)|(\d{1,})/   only extracts foo 01. TIA.